Backup and Restore

While Aerospike replicates data among the nodes of a cluster and across datacenters, we recommend that you also make regular backups of your data.

Because of the heavy resource usage involved in backing up and restoring a database, Aerospike provides external backup and restore tools called asbackup and asrestore, both part of the aerospike-tools package provided with all Aerospike Database editions.

Aerospike also offers the Aerospike Backup Service (ABS), which provides a REST API for creating different policies for backups.